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Showtime has gone ahead and picked up Dexter for two more seasons, ensuring that “America’s favorite serial killer” will be keeping bad guys off the streets for a forth and fifth season.

Currently airing its third season, the show has become Showtime’s highest rated program. The series focuses on Dexter, portrayed by Michael C. Hall, a Miami Police Department forensics specialist who uses his special skills and department connections to identify criminals who have fallen between the cracks of the justice system, then uses his blood lust and serial killer urges in a positive way (well, positive compared to the alternative) to take them off the streets permanently.

Dexter has a lack of remorse for his actions that makes him even more intriguing. He is never trying to get the audience on his side. He never sways us with lies or sugar coats what he does. Yet for a reason even I don’t know, I can’t help but get behind him and root for him.

Dexter airs on Sundays at 9pm on Showtime.

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by ThePit | Leave a Comment
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Today marks the release of the Family Guy Vol. 6 DVD.  The first few box sets are what got me hooked on the show, which is consistently one of the funniest programs on television. The Vol. 6 DVD includes twelve episodes from seasons five and six.  Keep reading to find out more details about the DVD and learn how to get a free copy of Family Guy Vol. 6.

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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by ThePit | Leave a Comment (4)
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This past week, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Knight Rider, two shows that were rumored to be heading for cancellation, were extended to full season orders.  Both shows are based on popular 1980s franchises and have been getting low ratings against tough competition.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles airs on Monday nights at 8pm against Chuck, Gossip Girl, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Dancing With the Stars, and Monday Night Football, which shares a similar demographic and takes a big chunk of the ratings.  Like a lot of other shows in the current season, Fox offers all the new episodes online, which makes it less important to see the show in its first run on television.  I think we’re finally seeing the full effect of airing episodes online for free with how many struggling shows we have this season.

Knight Rider airs on NBC Wednesday nights at 8pm against Pushing Daisies, Bones, America’s Next Top Model, New Adventures of Old Christine, and Gary Unmarried. While not nearly as competitive as Sarah Connor’s time slot, it still faces a tough variety of content; from Daisies stylized quirkiness to Bones’ intriguing cases and whatever the heck people see in Top Model. With rumors that David Hasselhoff will be guest starring in future episodes, I can picture a spike in the ratings, maybe even a big enough one to warrant a second season for the struggling action show.

Love them or hate them? Either way you have 9 more episodes to give them a chance.

We are fast approaching the release of the vampire love story adaptation, Twilight, which hits theaters on November 21st, 2008.  Based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer, the film follows a 17 year old girl, Bella (Kristen Stewart), who moves to Forks, Washington, where she falls in love with Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a vampire with a tormented soul.

A lot of new photos from Twilight have been released. Click to enlarge.

Twilight is the first part of a four book series, followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. Production has already begun on New Moon.

Matt Damon’s action hero with a tragic past, Jason Bourne, will be back to kick some more ass. Variety reports that Damon will be teaming up with Paul Greengrass for a fourth film based on the character from the popular Robert Ludlum series.

While I enjoyed the first film in the series, which was directed by Doug Liman, I was sorely disappointed in its sequel, The Bourne Supremacy.  Everything that I liked about the first film, including its brutal but slick fights and engaging characters was negated in the Greengrass directed second film, which had an over use of annoying shaky camera, unmotivated characters, and unnecessary deaths. The third film in the series, The Bourne Ultimatum, was an improvement over Supremacy, but still wasn’t as enjoyable as the original.

I really wish that Frank Marshall, the film’s producer, would find new blood to direct the fourth film.  Damon knows this character in and out, and there is a lot of good places they can go with him, I just really wish it could be shot in a way that didn’t give me a head ache.  The film is expected to be released in the summer of 2010 and this time around it will be an original story instead of an adaptation of one of Ludlum’s novels.

NBC is airing a special two hour premiere for its new series Crusoe, which stars Philip Winchester as Robinson Crusoe, the famed castaway, and Tongayi Chirisa as Friday, a native that Crusoe befriends.  The series is a direct adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s novel of the same name.

For those unfamiliar with the source material, the story follows Crusoe, a family man who is stranded on a desert island and forced to use his wits to survive. Along with Friday, Crusoe must face off with “marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild cats, starvation and apocalyptic lightning storms”.  The new series will be using a style similar to ABC’s Lost, where we will flashback to the time before Crusoe was stranded on the island to learn about his life and family that he left behind.

The series co-stars Sam Neill and Anna Walton. Click the pictures below to enlarge.

James Van Der Beek

James Van Der Beek portrayed a young filmmaker on Dawson’s Creek for six seasons, and now he is set to return to television guest starring as an established filmmaker on One Tree Hill for The CW.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Van Der Beek will share scenes with another former Dawson’s Creek alum, Chad Michael Murray, as his character attempts to option a novel written by Lucas to direct as a feature film.

One Tree Hill and Dawson’s Creek used to share a home on the WB Network, and Hill currently shoots on the same production lot in Wilmington that Creek used. Could Van Der Beek be reprising Dawson Leary?  With The CW reaching into the past with their 90210 continuation, I wouldn’t be surprised if they crossed well liked characters over from former popular shows to boost ratings.  I know I’ll be tuning in.

The episode airs on November 24th.